Positional/Weighted number system
The value of a symbol is determined by its position Examples: decimal / binary / octal / hexadecimal number systems …
Non-positional/Non-weighted number system
The value of a symbol is NOT determined by its position Examples: gray code, cyclic code …
The octal number system is a weighted system with eight digits.
❑ The binary number system is a weighted system with two digits.
❑ MSB stands for most significant bit.
❑ In hexadecimal, 9 + 1 = 10. (A)
❑ The 1’s complement of the binary number 1010 is 0101.
❑ The 2’s complement of the binary number 1111 is 0000. (0001)
❑ The right-most bit in a signed binary number is the sign bit. (MSD or left-most bit))
❑ The hexadecimal number system has 16 characters, six of which are alphabetic characters. ❑ BCD stands for binary coded decimal.
❑ An error in a given code can be detected by verifying the parity bit.
❑ CRC stands for cyclic redundancy check.
❑ The modulo-2 sum of 11 and 10 is 100